In the digital age, love and technology are intertwined. Engaging in the online world can feel personal, individual and connected. No wonder it’s hard to unplug – breaking our digital attachments is emotional. Are we really any different to the idolaters of ancient times?

In the digital age, love and technology are intertwined. Engaging in the online world can feel personal, individual and connected. No wonder it’s hard to unplug – breaking our digital attachments is emotional. Are we really any different to the idolaters of ancient times?

Where are you now?
Why is what you were so shattered?
Now your power diffuses, confuses and demands showy chatter
Now you are Outside, sheltered by the haze of time
cluttered by critical hallucinations
unreachable and irreproachable

The autobiography of former Principal of the NSW Baptist College, Gordon Morling, is a book to be read with a prayerful heart and mind – and is a reminder that, when we have an inner composure, we are enabled to do more.

So many people unknown / Yet no one seems alone.

Charles Ringma invites us to enter the hermitage of the heart, mind and soul, and leads us towards deep theological and critical thinking, a life of ministry among the poor and justice-seeking, and a perceptiveness of what is actually going on in our world.

Jesus is not just the Good Shepherd, but the Beautiful Shepherd that lays down his life for us. This beauty stuns, captivates and leaves us in ecstasy – an ecstacy that draws us out of ourselves to pierce through and illuminate our culture’s many lovely oblivions.

Jesus is not just the Good Shepherd, but the Beautiful Shepherd that lays down his life for us. This beauty stuns, captivates and leaves us in ecstasy – an ecstacy that draws us out of ourselves to pierce through and illuminate our culture’s many lovely oblivions.

From practical multiculturalism in parish ministry to groundbreaking policymaking at the state and Federal levels,
Jim Houston’s lifelong work brought together ‘secular social policy and sacred ministry’, charting a way forward for both nation and church.